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Step by
Step Guide to Graduation
Dear Graduate Student: Congratulations! We
recognize you for the hard work and dedication it has taken for you to
reach this point in your academic career.
Please note that a new procedure for submitting your dissertation,
executive position paper or thesis to the Office of Graduate and
Professional Education (OGS) is now in place. Your paper is submitted
to the OGS in Adobe® PDF format. Note: You
should inquire in your program whether or not a bound paper copy is
required to be submitted to your adviser or department.
Degree candidates:
You must come to the Office of Graduate and Professional Education on
or before the submission deadline (see step 3 below) to submit the
required documents for your master's thesis, dissertation or executive
position paper. Please call for an appointment (302-831-8484).
Note
(Important): The Office of Graduate and Professional Education takes
your paper to Vice Provost Debra Hess Norris for her signature. On the Approval
page, follow this format:
Debra Hess
Norris, M.S.
Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education
To guide you through this process please
follow the steps outlined below:
Things You Must Do:
Step 1: Acquire and use
the UD Thesis/Dissertation Templates to set up the format for your paper.
Also refer to the UD
Thesis/Dissertation Manual for formatting requirements for your
document.
Step 2: File
your application for the degree.
Step 3: Check
the submission deadlines.
Step 4: Defend dissertation/executive position paper (thesis if
appropriate). Doctoral Students: acquire signatures of the committee
members on the Certification
of Defense form.
Step 5: Acquire the signatures on the first approval page (3 originals
required on 25% cotton bond paper). Note: When you submit your first
approval page to the Dean's office for signature, also submit a printed
version of your thesis/dissertation/executive paper for the Dean's
review. Doctoral Students: Acquire the signatures of committee members
on the second approval page (3 originals required on 25% cotton bond
paper).
Step 6: Prepare a PDF version of your thesis/dissertation.
- If you have written your document in
Microsoft Word, click
here for instruction on how to convert it into PDF (Adobe Acrobat
needed for this conversion is available in the Computing lab of the UD
Library and Smith Hall).
- Click here
for help with embedding Word fonts in PDF.
- If you have created your document using
Word Perfect, Tex or LaTex or on a Macintosh, please contact IT help
center by calling 302-831-6000 (mention thesis/dissertation conversion
to PDF).
- Once you have created your PDF document
double check to see if you have created it correctly (all fonts must
be embedded in the PDF document) by following this link.
Step 7: When and what to bring to the Office
of Graduate and Professional Education.
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